"The novel, by Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz, follows an unnamed woman who moves with her husband to the middle of nowhere in France. Isolated and frustrated, she battles the confines of marriage and motherhood. She introduces herself to the reader as a nutcase, as someone beyond repair. She sets fire to ants, swears at her child, complains of its constant clucking and grousing. She speaks the unspeakable: I'm a mother, full stop. And I regret it, but I can't even say that."
"Adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel, the film imagines the terrible result of a failure to connect with your child. In this instance, the teenager commits a Columbine-style massacre but can't be tried as an adult. The blame is thus directed at his mother, Eva — played memorably by Tilda Swinton — who suffered from postpartum depression. When baby Kevin refused to sleep, she told him that Mommy was happy before Kevin came along."
Martin Scorsese read Die, My Love and sent the novel to Jennifer Lawrence's production company, convinced Lawrence should play the mother. Jennifer Lawrence and producer Justine Ciarrocchi recruited Lynne Ramsay to direct. The novel centers on an unnamed woman who, isolated in rural France, reacts to marriage and motherhood with rage, self-description as a nutcase, and harmful acts toward insects and her child. Ramsay's earlier films Ratcatcher and We Need to Talk About Kevin demonstrate a recurring focus on parental failure, isolation, and blurred lines between truth and fantasy. The film pairs Lawrence with Robert Pattinson and continues Ramsay's unflinching exploration of maternal responsibility.
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